Major News about the New Major http://parkgameportal.com/wordpress Videogame Design & Immersive Media at the Television-Radio Department at the Roy H. Park School, Ithaca College Mon, 23 Feb 2009 05:12:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Another step towards final approval of the game major We heard last week that the college curriculum committee approved the Game Design and Immersive Media major here in the Radio-Television Department of the ROy H. Park School of Communication at Ithaca College. Isn't that a mouthful. FInally! A big cheer for everyone's hard work. What does this mean to incoming ... http://parkgameportal.com/wordpress/?p=52 Game Events Spring 2009 3 pieces of news in the Videogame Design & Immersive Media program at Ithaca College so far this Spring 2009 semester - the global game jam, a visit by a videogame industry executive producer, and the New york Comic Con.In early February the Global Game Jam took part in more ... http://parkgameportal.com/wordpress/?p=50 Ads Created for Boardgames The students in the Games and Society class in Fall 2008 created a variety of ads for board and card games that we've been playing in class. There are video, audio, print, and flash banner ads. Check it out - http://kimgregson.com/mambo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=111&Itemid=39 http://parkgameportal.com/wordpress/?p=48 Playing Games [caption id="" align="alignright" width="240" caption="Image by kgregson via Flickr"][/caption] During the freshman year of the game design major, we focus on analog games - board games and card games. We play them in the fall to learn about win conditions, rules, game play mechanisms, and we make them in the spring ... http://parkgameportal.com/wordpress/?p=11 Spring Game Design Class to be Offered We will be offering TVR 20500 Critical Game Design & Analysis in the Spring - MW 4:00 to 5:15 In this class we will learn design basics by studying exisitng video games and virtual worlds. Students will apply the design basics to create their own board or card game. This is ... http://parkgameportal.com/wordpress/?p=5 Students play test serious games Students in the Spring 2008 game design class taught by Sharon Stansfield and Kim Gregson used GameMaker (from YoYo Games) created 2D games based on educational units from Project LookSharp, a media literacy group at Ithaca College. The games dealt with propaganda, posters during the Soviet Revolution, images of war, ... http://parkgameportal.com/wordpress/?p=3